[Monotone-devel] Some more issues

[Jeremy Fincher]

Here are some more issues I've noticed while doing some 
research/working with monotone...

1. The project page on Savannah has many open items that seem to be 
resolved, but are still open.  Many other items seem to apply to much 
older versions of Monotone (I saw at least one for 0.12).  If there's 
anything I can do to help close some of these items, I'll be happy to 
help out; the bug list needs to be short if anyone's to trust Monotone 
with their source code.  I'm interested in helping Monotone wherever I 
can, and I think reducing the number of open items on Savannah is some 
low-hanging fruit I could help with.

2. I couldn't sync with the official monotone server; the process 
seemed to hang (sucking up 100% CPU) after revision 1566.  I did a 
ktrace on it (I'm using OSX) and it seemed that it was repeatedly 
calling select with a timeout of around a second; I'm not sure why that 
would peg the CPU, but it was doing that.

3. Graydon mentioned a packet format in #monotone; I got a small taste 
of that when adding the official key for the monotone repository.  Is 
there any documentation as to the format of these packets, or, at 
least, is there a way for me to generate these packets for arbitrary 
"database things" like revisions and certs so I can reverse-engineer 
the format?  I think this interface will be satisfactory for my attempt 
at implementing the "better than file granularity" selector for 
patches.

Jeremy